What was Damu Anna's specific financial goal with the cotton trade, and how did Baba's denial impact his vision for the future?

Damu Anna's specific financial goal was to quickly achieve immense wealth. As stated in Chapter 25, upon receiving Baba's discouraging reply, he lamented his lost opportunity, thinking, "I would have earned one lakh now, and put half a lakh on interest. I would have immediately become a millionaire money-lender and lived happily in Nagar." Baba's denial completely destroyed this vision. The source explains that the "kingdom of the mind that he had built melted away on the spot," and the "tree of hope was uprooted." He was left utterly crestfallen, believing his chance at a prosperous and happy future as a powerful financier had been ruined by his own action of writing the letter.